Storing negatives

dazftw

Im just wondering to those of you that shoot film, how do you store your negatives?

At the moment i'm sleeving them all in clear plastic sleeves and categorizing them into folders.

Id like to move away from the folders and get something a little more light tight and secure. I would like to keep the plastic sleeves though as they're the handiest things ever.

Open to suggestions. Im looking at boxes but they all seem fairly expensive.

pete4130

dude

I store mine SO badly. In neg sleeves in a4 lever arch folders....not ideal. Easiest thing is the a4 box style lever arch folders. Bit more protection.

dazftw

Thats what im using the lever arch folders(its funny how you never know about technical names for things)

They're just messy I want something neat. I was looking at the box style ones awhile ago. Ill take another look tomorrow. Also check out the art shop in town maybe.

DaireQuinlan

Yep, lever arch folders and glasseen sleeves (they're those translucent tracing paper-looking ones). All stuck into boxes and shoved in a press somewhere. No attempt made to control the environment or anything. Properly fixed and washed B&W ought to outlast you by a comfortable margin. C-41 is another question altogether.

magicbastarder

lever arch folders and glasseen sleeves too.
i once made the mistake of leaving some slide film flat on a surface, in the clear plastic sleeves. inevitably, a book was 'temporarily' placed on top while i made room for something else. a couple of months later, the slides were stuck to the inside of the plastic.

DaireQuinlan

magicbastarder wrote: »

lever arch folders and glasseen sleeves too.
i once made the mistake of leaving some slide film flat on a surface, in the clear plastic sleeves. inevitably, a book was 'temporarily' placed on top while i made room for something else. a couple of months later, the slides were stuck to the inside of the plastic.

AAAARGH CLEAR PLASTIC SLEEVES :mad::mad:

-it's a long story.

Effects

I use glasseen sleeves too and have them in a folder. Helps to keep them in order. I've only kept stuff in these from the past few years though. All my older stuff is in thoses smaller neg holders you get back from developers. I've been waiting until I got a decent scanner to transfer them to proper sleeves and archive them. A friend of mine was home from San Francisco at christmas and he had to dig out some negs for an exhibition. Half of his negs were in plastic sleeves and just chucked into old shopping bags and the rest weren't even sleeved.
I also write the date starting with the month on the top of the sleeve and it matches a folder on my computer where the scans are stored. Makes it really easy to find the neg if I need it.

magicbastarder

anyone any tips on storing 120 which has no gaps between the exposures - i.e. it can't be cut?

jpb1974

anyone any tips on storing 120 which has no gaps between the exposures - i.e. it can't be cut?

Sort out the camera's frame spacing?

I'm a nightmare when it comes to negative storage... if the negs make it to the glasseen sleeves then I've done a good job.

Roomic Cube

I do the same thing with mine, sleeves and a lever arch folder

artyeva

i use the wax translucent kenro pages filed in a lever arch box with a few sachets of dessicant thrown in for good measure. i can't really justify the price of the kenro albums, though they might look a bit better than the boxes i have.

Nisio

I bought a folder and sleeves with good intentions but my developed films are all still rolled up in canisters in a drawer

dazftw

Effects wrote: »

I use glasseen sleeves too and have them in a folder. Helps to keep them in order. I've only kept stuff in these from the past few years though. All my older stuff is in thoses smaller neg holders you get back from developers. I've been waiting until I got a decent scanner to transfer them to proper sleeves and archive them. A friend of mine was home from San Francisco at christmas and he had to dig out some negs for an exhibition. Half of his negs were in plastic sleeves and just chucked into old shopping bags and the rest weren't even sleeved.
I also write the date starting with the month on the top of the sleeve and it matches a folder on my computer where the scans are stored. Makes it really easy to find the neg if I need it.

oh god start as soon as you get the scanner.. Scanning negatives is the most boring thing I have ever done in my life. Especially when you have a lot. Suicidal stuff.

Thanks for the replies guys.

Effects

I've got about ten years worth of my own stuff and then I'm going to start on family stuff.
I tend to do my scanning while watching something on my computer so it's not too bad.

sineadw

Yep - lever box file, in the sleeves.. Actually you've just reminded me that I moved them into temporary storage when I nicked the box file for something else. I *really* need to sort my house out..

Cakes.

Sorry for dragging up an old thread but are these the glasseen sleeves?

Are there separate bits or each strip of 35mm?

artyeva

these are the ones i use. i trust the wax paper ones more than the plasticky pages.